The problem is not, as some 'dissidents' suggest, of the Sinn Fein leadership selling out, but the product of a movement driven from top-down centralised control which minimised and crushed constructive debate. The continuing harrassment of republicans and their families and the repressive use of stop-and-search powers is systematic of states generally which are inherently violent and are the greatest practitioners of terrorism at home and abroad.

The challenge is to build a movement which uproots oppression and exploitation in its path. We need to consign the politics of green and orange to history and build a future that offers freedom and equality to all.